2026 SPEAKERS

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Keynote Speaker - Mark Smith  

Piteau Associates USA

Victoria Gold Heap Leach Failure Investigation

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Luncheon Speaker -Larry Radford 

Mark Twain in Mining

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Richard Zaggle

Liberty Gold

Black Pine GeoMetallurgy

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Chase Ruff    

Paterson & Cooke

Cyanide Code or Heap Leach Case Studies

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Mike Irish & Brett Clark

Sunshine & Samuel Engineering

Antimony Processing at the Sunshine Mine: From Legacy Operations to Modern Process Innovation

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Kenji Umeno

I-80 Gold

Autoclaves & Mineral Point

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Svetlana Benthen

NGM

Gold Quarry Roaster: Metallurgical Sampler Commissioning and Sustainability

Perla Arellano

NGM

SXEW

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Matt Chenault & Amanda Fitch

Jerritt Canyon

The Future of Jerritt Canyon

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Ryan Monteith 

SGS

​Proven in Practice: Testwork Programs that Became Operating Mines

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John Walsh

KCA

Agglomeration: When Does Cement Addition Pay in Heap Leaching?

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Student Speaker 1

School

TBA

Student Speaker 2

School

TBA

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Student Speaker 3

School TBA

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